{"id":27302,"date":"2023-11-14T01:03:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T05:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=27302"},"modified":"2023-11-13T19:53:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T23:53:58","slug":"twin-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/twin-views\/","title":{"rendered":"twin views"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27303\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/twin-views.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27303\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27303\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/twin-views-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">view cameras &#8211; lot 823 at auction this Sunday<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. \u00a0My earliest activity on the camera collecting front was an old view camera like this &#8211; no shutter, no lens &#8211; in a small suitcase. The junk shop in Toronto was delighted to see it out the door. The maker was Rochester Optical (later absorbed by Kodak) and manufacture was around 1900.<\/p>\n<p>Years later in the Montreal suburb of Dorval. An associate of mine gave me an old lens and a lens and shutter (UNICUM) combination. \u00a0 Mounted on a lens board I made, the lens\/shutter combination was a perfect match for the old view camera.<\/p>\n<p>If you hanker for one to use or collect, drop by <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/estate-auction-fall-2023-november-19-2023\/\">our auction this Sunday<\/a>. Remember, the cameras shown here are just ONE lot of around 200+ going under the hammer. Free parking and food, Don&#8217;t miss it!<\/p>\n<p>PS. The title of the post is a riff on a 1990s TV series called, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twin_Peaks\">Twin Peaks<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. \u00a0My earliest activity on the camera collecting front was an old view camera like this &#8211; no shutter, no lens &#8211; in a small suitcase. The junk shop in Toronto was delighted to see it out the door. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/twin-views\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[399,4481,1409],"class_list":["post-27302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-auction","tag-roc-hester-optical","tag-view-cameras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27305,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27302\/revisions\/27305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}